Describing WAC is therefore best accomplished with a comparison with WAB. That should be no surprise given the fact that the editor of WAB, Rob Broom, is the writer of WAC. It bears many, many similarities with this game. WAC is, in short, WAB as WAB 2.0 should have been. Then, two weeks ago, I played my first game of WAC with my dusted-off Saxo invaders and Romano British 'Arthurians'. It did look at least as good as WAB 2.0, but still I was weary. I bought a copy at Crisis 2013 in November and read it. My Ancient armies started to gather dust in favour of other periods and rulesets.Īnd then some friends of mine convinced me of the virtues of WAC. But au contraire to BP this game felt a bit bland, the troop types too generic and the game pace too slow to really peak my interest. My club adopted it in the wake of the Black Powder successes, I bought it and played it a number of times. In terms of marketing success HC was the absolute winner. War and Conquest, Clash of Empires and Hail Caesar appeared in a relatively short amount of time around WAB's demise. And after the closure of Warhammer Historical in 2012 WAB was finally and truly dead.

Everybody who had until then be willing to have sympathy and hope for WAB effectively lost this after paying 45 Euros for this pile of glossy toilet paper. GW really put some effort into the slow strangulation of what must have been one of the most succesful Ancients wargaming rules ever and finally delivered the neck shot in 2010 with the monstrous WAB 2.0: expensive, fault-ridden, badly edited and even clunkier than WAB 1.5.

Supplements were always promised and sometimes published, but always late. An overhaul for the main rules was postponed and delayed for years. WAB however was destined for a long and slow death bed.

I even played a WAB tournament once which says something because I hate tournaments. I always thought WAB a magnificent, if in some places clunky game that gave me hundreds of hours of fun. A ruleset that was published during the last death throes of Warhammes Ancient Battles (WAB). A few weeks ago I played my first game of War and Conquest.

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